Entries Tagged 'poetry' ↓
June 14th, 2007 — poetry, readers
That just seemed like a good headline to tell you that I’m swamped with work for a few days. It’s all good but it means I must let GoodWordEditing lapse for a bit.
I love you all, and I’ll be back soon—with a very special FREE 24 page treat with NEVER BEFORE SEEN CONTENT. This SATURDAY (saturday… saturday… saturday…)Â
I think you’ll like it. Stay tuned…
(I know all caps are a no-no, but they are my attempt to simulate the tracktor pull announcer voice in text. The fact that I have to tell you that suggests that it didn’t work so well.)
Monster Truck: Scarlet Bandit - Taken by Jot Powers, 10/2004
May 24th, 2007 — poetry, speculative fiction
You get a poem called “Garden of Stone and Flesh.” My attempt at blank verse for the time being.
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May 23rd, 2007 — CSFF, business, poetry
I’m not sure what the copyright armageddon is exactly, but it sounds bad, right? We should run screaming from it, right? We should be afraid, very afraid, right?
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May 22nd, 2007 — CSFF, blogtipping, fantasy, poetry
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It’s time again for the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour! This month, we’re talking about The Sword Review, an online magazine project of Double-Edged Publishing, Inc.
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May 14th, 2007 — blogging, poetry
Ode to a Mother on Mother’s Day
This morning, my wife, their mother,
scratched backs, kissed kids awake
who stretched and groaned and went to church
with hair brushed smooth by mother
cheeks wiped clean by mother.
Mother’s Day brunches don’t last
so little hands held you in prayer,
half me, half you, the sum adds up
to eyes burning bright for mother
hearts in love with mother.
You can read other odes to mothers by clicking on this tag from TheGoodBlogs: 
best_mom
Note to regular readers. This post is typical. I’m late as usual.
Yesterday morning I woke up in Chicago for the last day of SOBcon07. It was totally awesome, but I’ll post more on that soon. For now, TheGoodBlogs inspired me to post that mom’s day poem.
April 26th, 2007 — podcast, poetry
I’ve always loved the First Mover speech from Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale. So here is a little lyric I wrote inspired by that concept and my son’s experience moving from San Antonio to Kerrville when he was just a year old. (We actually moved on his birthday!)
Underneath the text of the poem, I’m embedding a little podcast if you want to hear me read it. (I feel strongly that poetry should be experienced out loud.)Â
You know you want to read this poem.
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April 11th, 2007 — blogtipping, models, poetry, responses
Stay with me on this one.Â
Robert Bruce caught me in a revealing misread of his latest poem at Knife Gun Pen: Everything Will Conspire to Stop You. My misread says more about me than Robert’s poem, I think. A poetry criticism Freudian slip of sorts.
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April 5th, 2007 — faith, poetry, responses
A discussion started on my Comments on God’s Blog post today. I haven’t commented there yet because I’m not sure what to say. I’m a little out of my league to be honest.
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April 2nd, 2007 — faith, poetry
Steve McCoy over at Reformissionary reminded me that April is National Poetry Month.
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March 30th, 2007 — poetry
A few weeks ago, I planned to start being more organized here. I am now posting one macro look at publishing, one micro look at publishing, and one example of good writing from myself or others—each week. That’s my plan.
Here is the first example of good writing. This poem comes to us from Ally, whom you’ll see in the comments section around here from time to time. I love this poem.
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